Trial reportAnxiety, stress, and coping2021
The impact of emotion regulation therapy on emotion differentiation in psychologically distressed caregivers of cancer patients.
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- Emotion Regulation Interventions for Cancer Patients and Their Relatives: A Systematic Review.Cancer medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of a WeChat-Based Life Review Program for Patients With Digestive System Cancer: 3-Arm Parallel Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Characterizing the Autonomic Correlates of Negative Emotion Differentiation: Bridging Laboratory and Daily Life Assessments.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Stress Estimation Model for the Sustainable Health of Cancer Patients.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Article
- Is Negative Emotion Differentiation Associated With Emotion Regulation Choice? Investigations at the Person and Day Level.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Emotion Differentiation and Youth Mental Health: Current Understanding and Open Questions.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesEmotion differentiation is considered adaptive because differentiated emotional experiences are believed to promote access to the information that emotions carry, enabling context-appropriate emotion regulation. In the present study, secondary analyses from a recent randomized controlled trial (O'Toole et al., 2019) were conducted to investigate whether emotion differentiation can improve as a result of psychotherapy and whether improvements in emotion differentiation are associated with reduced distress. DESIGN AND
methodsA total of 81 distressed caregivers of cancer patients were randomized to Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT), an intervention aimed at improving emotion differentiation and facilitating healthy emotion regulation, or a waitlist condition. Emotion differentiation scores could be calculated for 54 caregivers.
resultsRepeated measures ANOVAs revealed that ERT led to significant improvements in negative (
conclusionsThe results suggest that negative emotion differentiation can improve as a result of psychotherapy. Further research is needed to clarify how improvements in emotion differentiation following therapeutic interventions relate to treatment outcomes such as distress.
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